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Patented-Sept.26,1882.

. fave/2Z0 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES STORY, OF RUTLAND,VERMONT.

COMBINED HEEL- PLATE AND IC E-C REEP ER'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,968, datedSeptember 26, 1882.

Application filed July 31,1882.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, CHARLES STORY, acitizen of the United States, residing at Rutland,

in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont,

have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Heel-Plateand Creeper, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings. 7 1

My invention relates to a combined heelplate and creeperfor the heels ofboots and shoes; and the object of my improvement is to provide acombined plate and. creeper the parts of which are arranged in such amanner that the creeper, when not in use, may be folded down into areoess formed partly in the heel and partly in the plate, so that theplate and creeper shall present an even outer surface, but so that whenwalking on ice, or sidewalks covered with ice or snow, said creeper maybe turned back to near the rear portion of the heel, and thus present aprojecting calk, which will enter the ice, and thus prevent the wearerfrom slipping. I attain this object by the devices illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- 7 Figure I is a perspective view,showing the heel of a boot or shoe with my improved device attachedthereto, the creeper being folded into a recess formed in the forwardportion of the plate and heel. Fig. II is a similar view, showing thecreeper turned backward, so as to show the projecting calk in a positionfor use. Fig. III is a sectional View, showing the heel-plate, thecreeper pivoted thereto, and a spring for holding it in position; andFig. IV

is a perspective view of the plate and creeper,

showing also the pin upon which the creeper turns.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In constructing my improved device I provide a plate, A, of steel orother suitable metal, the form and dimensions of which are to be such asto adapt it to the size and form of the heel to which it is to beattached. I prefer to make such plate of substantially the form shown inthe drawings, having in its surface cavities, as there shown, which,when the creeper is not in position for use, will have a tendency toprevent slipping. It may, however, if preferred, be made without anyother Fig. III.

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is pivoted to the plate A substantially in the manner shown in Figs. IIIand IV, it carrying a pin, 0, for that purpose, which rests in recessesformed in the inner side of .the plate. Upon one of the surfaces of thebar 0 there is formed or secured a projecting ealk, G which, when saidbar is in the position shown in Fig. II,projects outward from the rearportion of the plate, in which position it will enter the ice or snowand effectually prevent the wearer from slipping. When the creeper isnot required it is turned into the position shown in Fig. I, at whichtime the bar 0 enters a space formed in the plate for its reception,while the projection enters a recess fortned in the heel on its forwardportion, thus leaving a smooth surface upon the outside of the plate andcreeper, except when the former has cavities formed in it. For holdingthe creeper in either of its positions there is placed in a. recessformed in the heel a spring, D, which may consist wholly of bent wire orpartially of such wire and partly of rubber, D, as shown in Upon theupper end of spring D there is placed a plate of metal, D the uppersurface of which is concave in form, upon which the rounded end'of thebar 0 rests, it being held in its forward or rearward position by saidspring.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

In combination with the heel of a boot or shoe provided with a recess inthe front thereof, the recessed plate A, swinging bar 0, carrying uponone of its ends a calk, 0 and the spring D, arranged under or upon thepivoted end of said bar, for holding it in either of its positions,substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES STORY. Witnesses:

AMOS G. BATES, HENRY H. SMITH.

